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| Poland (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Krzysztof Dydynski
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 808789
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Pages: 552
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0864426550
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9780864426550
ASIN: 0864426550
Publication Date: November 30, 1999
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Guidebook on a big country, with not too many deatails November 29, 2002
3 out of 17 found this review helpful
I have bought this guidebook with curiosity. Reading Norman Davies' famous books about Poland I was interested in the historical sights in today's territory of the country. My first surprise was the length of the book. Given the fact that Poland has a big territory with almost 40 Million people I found the guidebook relatively short. For instance the smaller Hungary has almost the same size guidebook as Poland. According to my observation this volume is not detailed enough the historical descriptions are really missing at certain sights.
The very famous Przemysl city received two pages and within this one of the the biggest battle in WWI and the fortification only two sentences. I could continue the examples. I think the historical part is the real weakness of this guidebook which is a pity from the Polish author in case of such a country with rich historical background.
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